When you aim a high-powered assault rifle at someone, you're not trying to commit manslaughter.
Former Blackwater employees, Justin H. Cannon of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff of Virginia Beach, have been acquitted of murder charges in the May 2009 shooting of two unarmed Afghan civilians in Kabul. Instead, a Virginia jury found them guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
On the night Romal Mohammad Naiem and Rahib Mirza Mohammad were shot to death, Cannon and Drotleff were tailing their translators, when the interpreters' vehicle got into an accident.
When a white Toyota Corolla rapidly approached the scene of the crash, Cannon and Drotleff opened fire - killing Romal Mohammad Naiem, a passenger in the Toyota and Rahib Mirza Mohammad, who was simply walking his dog.
Even though Cannon and Drotleff were acquitted of all charges related to Mirza Mohammad's death, they face up to eight years in prison for the shooting death of Mohammad Naiem.
The question is an obvious one: Technically, did these men get away with murder?
2 comments:
These people rank right up there with OJ..they all got away with murder. BUT as we well know, "what goes around comes around" and it came around on OJ so these people will have it coming around to them as well. I often wonder how people who kill people sleep at night? They must have some pretty powerful sleeping pills. Hell, if my dog is sick I can barely sleep.
Over the weekend, I watched an MSNBC special on prisons. During one segment, they interviewed a prisoner who served in one of our recent, unnecessary wars.
As he recounted his days in the army, he came across like a completely psychotic sociopath. He almost seemed proud of the fact that he robbed and terrorized innocent people in Iraq.
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